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I have a MacBook Pro 15" with Leopard. I have boot camp 1.4 with Windows Vista Home Premium (have not upgraded it yet). I want to upgrade it to boot camp 2.0 with my Leopard install disk. Now for the question.

I have the partitions to 32GB FAT partition for Vista and the rest (160GB - 32GB) for Leopard. I want to make them both 80GB. I have no data on any of the operating systems, because this is a new computer (Tiger, Boot Camp 1.4, Vista Premium, upgraded from Tiger to Leopard using flatpack). I also have install disks for both operating systems. I know there is a way to do it by wiping my hard drive, but is there an easier way? It is fine if I have to buy any 3rd party software to do it (iPartition??). I'm very confused. (and a newbie)

The absolute easiest way to do all this is to wipe the drive and just start over again. By the time you find and figure out how to use any 3rd party software to do all of that, you could have finished wiping and re-installing everything at least twice.

I cannot be held responsible for the things that come out of my mouth.
In the Windows world, most everything folks don't understand is called a virus.

The absolute easiest way to do all this is to wipe the drive and just start over again. By the time you find and figure out how to use any 3rd party software to do all of that, you could have finished wiping and re-installing everything at least twice.

bobtomay: In doing a complete reinstall, do you know if it is possible to use Time Machine to reinstall the Mac side of the partition to it's current state? I've investigated iPartition, but given how infrequently I would need to make changes to my partition, the $50 price seems rather steep.

The installer will start upon re-boot, then from the Utilities menu, select Restore System from Backup. You'll then choose the volume that contains your Time Machine backup.

There are some good directions on the Leopard disk. Put it in and double click on it. Then open the Instructions folder. Then open the Install & Setup Guide. What you're looking for is on page 12 starting with Restoring Your System.

If you're wanting to use NTFS for your windows partition and have anything you need from it also backed up, I would recommend restoring your drive to a single volume for the OS X install. Just to alleviate any possible problems later on.

I cannot be held responsible for the things that come out of my mouth.
In the Windows world, most everything folks don't understand is called a virus.